Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Croydon CAMHS are looking to recruit a Principal Family and Systemic Psychotherapist. This is an exciting opportunity to join and lead within a highly skilled, friendly and supportive service.
We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic Systemic Family Psychotherapist who is passionate about working with children and young people. Applicants must be keen to develop collaborative approaches and support the commitment of Croydon CAMHS to continually improve access to services for all community groups.
The successful applicant will provide leadership to the wider service and ensure the systemic provision of a highly specialist family and systemic psychotherapy service.
Croydon CAMHS works closely with Kings and IoPPN to provide learning opportunities to systemic Practitioners and Psychotherapists and there are opportunities to provide additional training clinics, teaching and supervision.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties:
1. To be responsible for the provision of a Systemic Psychotherapy service at a highly specialist level within the mental health CAMHS team within the context of existing multi-professional teamwork.
2. To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs.
3. To provide reports, including systemic formulation, and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
4. To select and deliver evidence-based highly specialist therapeutic interventions to young people and families, with complex psychological difficulties including depression, ASD, ADHD, sexual abuse, conduct disorder, learning disability, drawing from a broad spectrum of systemic models, monitoring outcomes and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary.
5. To be responsible for psychological interventions with carers (or families as appropriate) of children and adolescents referred to Croydon CAMHS.
6. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
7. To act as a care co-ordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans as required.
8. To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with young people and their families, taking account of communication needs.
9. To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up Croydon and to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
10. To provide psychological support to clients and families who are emotionally distressed.
11. To lead, and chair when appropriate, multidisciplinary meetings, and participate in child protection case conferences and reviews, providing professional advice on individual care programme planning and other clinical matters as necessary.
12. To take a lead in ensuring the effective working of the team or service and to ensure a psychologically and systems informed framework for the service area.
13. To provide highly specialist consultations to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapy techniques.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession and demonstrable practice in this field (A/I).
* Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy or equivalent qualification, accredited by UKCP (A/I).
* Registered with the UKCP as Systemic Psychotherapist and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the UKCP (A/I).
* Additional training in a specialised area of systemic practice through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses (A/I).
* Accredited by AFT to supervise qualified Systemic and Family Psychotherapists.
* Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines, including supervision and appraisal.
Experience
* Experience of Leadership within a similar setting leading to robust leadership skills.
* Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area (A/I).
* Evidence of having worked as a qualified systemic family psychotherapist under supervision in a CAMHS setting (A/I/R).
* Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals and families with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in CAMHS (A/I).
* Experience of supervising trainee family and systemic psychotherapists, having completed the relevant training (A/I).
* Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework (A/I).
Knowledge
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised systemic and psychological therapies for children, young people and their families.
* Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment for children and young people (A/I/R).
* Advanced knowledge of assessment techniques with children and adolescents with complex mental health presentations (A/I/R).
* MSc level knowledge of research methodology and complex statistical analysis (A/I/R).
* Highly specialist skills in the selection and use of complex assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data (A/I/R).
Skills
* To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues.
* To deliver psychotherapeutic, psychological and systemic interventions across cultural and other differences (A/I).
* Highly specialist skills in providing consultation to the multi-professional team or other professional groups within own service (A/I/R).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
£67,950 to £78,028 a year plus HCAs
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